Anderson Economic Group, which conducted the study for the lobbying organization, estimates another $1.24 billion in sales from the illicit market along with the likely smaller adult-use home cultivation.
The interest behind the illicit market and the legal home growers is sales and tax revenue.
So if $1.3 billion of the $3.2 billion in estimated total sales last year occur in the illicit and legal home growers market, commercial growers and retailers are missing out.